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From: Nagesh_Pabbisetty.Henr801C@xerox.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: olwm *exiting* problems
Message-ID: <"30-Jan-91.11:03:42.EST".*.Nagesh_Pabbisetty.Henr801C@Xerox.com>
Date: 30 Jan 91 16:03:42 GMT
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> Yes.  The following line
> adds a menu item that does what you want:

>	"Exit Window Manager"		    WMEXIT

	I copied $OPENWINHOME/lib/openwin-menu to my home dir as .openwin-menu.
	I edited it to have the following 2 lines:

		"Exit WM..."			WMEXIT

		"Exit..."			EXIT

	Here is what happens:

	1. When I run openwin, then olwm menu has both these entries. However,
	   using  "Exit WM..." logs me out of the system even without asking
	   me for confirmation. When I select "Exit..." menu item, it asks me
	   for confirmation. However, both exit me from the server!
	   Is there anything I am doing incorrectly?

	2. If I run the MIT server, and then start up olwm, its menu does not
	   show an entry for "Exit WM..." at all! Should I have another default
	   file for using olwm with the MIT server? MIT server with olwm is
	   my preferred configuration (:-).

> (Why does olwm kill all the clients in the first place?  Well, think of
> "exit" as "logout".  Most users login and logout more often than they
> switch window managers.  If you need to switch window managers, that's
> what the WMEXIT menu command is for.)

	Makes sense.

Thanks to smarks@eng.sun.com, raja@cps.msu.edu, welch@scam.berkeley.edu, and
steve@umiacs.umd.edu for answering my questions...

Any info to solve my problem will be appreciated.

Regards,

nagesh (pabbiset@arisia.xerox.com)